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Elise Seyfried
Viva il Pomodoro!

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

When is a tomato not a tomato? When it is a timer! The “Pomodoro” method of time management has...
Elise Seyfried
Garden Spot

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

For most of the 32 years we have resided at our house in East Oreland, our back yard has served...
Elise Seyfried
Journal of the Plague Year

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

I remember reading this classic by Daniel Defoe when I was in high school. It is set in 1665, when...
Elise Seyfried
Going Solo

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

Next week is my fourth (virtual) solo show class, and I can’t wait. I’ve long pondered the idea of...
Elise Seyfried
thirtysomething

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

When my sister C and I reminisce about the time she spent living in Philly (and, for a while, with...
Elise Seyfried
An Open (Human Library) Book

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

As a writer, and a good friend of several librarians, I blush to disclose—I’m not a huge library...
Elise Seyfried
Nana Olympics

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

After 30 years of raising children, I became a grandmother. I was finally qualified to be on the...
Elise Seyfried
Columnist in Search of a Column

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

For nine years, I wrote a column for the Chestnut Hill Local , a small Philadelphia...
Elise Seyfried
Leaving the Station

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

Last Thursday, I went to the grocery store for the first time since March, 2020. I’ve been so...
Elise Seyfried
Ever After

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

Hasn’t time has been a slippery thing to measure these past 13 months? At some point 2020 ended,...
Elise Seyfried
H2O4U

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

When I was little, I hated drinking water. Well, to be fair, New York City tap water way back then...
Elise Seyfried
Our COVID Dish Supper

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

Last week marked the one year anniversary of the pandemic shutdown. I’m sure we all remember where...
Elise Seyfried
Mise-en-Place

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

For many years as a cook, I resisted the French concept of “mise-en-place” (putting everything in...
Elise Seyfried
Leftovers

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

I’ve never been a big fan of leftovers--probably because of the way Mom would store whatever...
Elise Seyfried
Symptomatic

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

For roughly 63 out of my 64 years shuffling along this mortal coil, I paid scant attention to my...
Elise Seyfried
Tough Luck! A Guide to Theatre Superstitions

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

As someone who believes in superstitions, many of which I learned from my Irish grandma (I’d better...
Elise Seyfried
A Couple of Characters

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

As the pandemic wears on, we are finally bored enough to tackle a wide variety of overdue tasks...
Elise Seyfried
A is for Abcedarian

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

I’m taking a class on The Experimental Essay. Each week we work with a different form, such as the...
Elise Seyfried
Marketing Me

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

Ever since my freelance writing career launched, and with it the opportunity for public speaking...
Elise Seyfried
Heart of a Hummingbird

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

“Consider the hummingbird for a long moment. A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second. A...